"Tubby" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and shading, the tubby lines of the little tug were softened and altered; its paint-cracked deck and wheelhouse silvered and mellowed. The twin wire cables stretching back to the tow became two glistening silver ropes. At their ends, cavernous gloomy and grimy despite the moonlight, wallowed the high ...
— The Plunderer • Henry Oyen
... came to Skippy at this announcement; almost a feeling of having been defrauded. Yet after all he had only himself to blame. The temptation of the future had beguiled him from the present necessity. He slid into his seat, conveniently protected, by the broad back of Tubby Banks, from the searching gaze of Lucius Cassius Hopkins, better known as the Roman, who presently would number him among the flunked. Then when the attack centered among the R's and S's, across the room, he drew forth a pencil and attacked ...
— Skippy Bedelle - His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete - Man of the World • Owen Johnson
... as Tubby,'" Tom said cheerfully. "A celebrity in his particular line, which is second-story man and all-round rascal. A victim of the quarantine, ...
— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... you don't skip to see how it all comes out in the end!" Sir Mallaby suspended conversation while he addressed an imaginary ball with the mashie which he had taken out of his golf-bag. For this was the day when he went down to Walton Heath for his weekly foursome with three old friends. His tubby form was clad in tweed of a violent nature, with knickerbockers and ...
— Three Men and a Maid • P. G. Wodehouse
... came the Fearless, and it stayed on the scene. Soon we found it was engaging a three-funneler, the Mainz, so off we started again, now for the Mainz, the situation being that the crippled Arethusa was too tubby to do anything but be defended by ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell
... the schooner's broad bilge showed above water, and the old Polly was so flat and tubby that their floating islet afforded ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... confirmed Jimmy Martin. He was a tubby, clean-shaven, rosy-faced little fellow of thirty odd, with an inexhaustible fund of good spirits. Everyone called him "Jimmy." Dean had known him as a reporter on a London daily paper and a fellow-member of a ...
— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg
... lad who is eager and chubby, A Stoddart in little, a hero in bud; Who'd think it a positive crime to grow tubby, And dreams half the night he's a Steel or a Studd! There's the youth for my fancy, all youngsters above— The boy for my handshake, the lad ...
— More Cricket Songs • Norman Gale |
